Falling asleep - quiet or loud?

Do your toddlers talk and laugh and make a lot of happy noise when you put them to bed at night or do they go straight to sleep?

Elle squeals and carries on at the top of her voice for about 15mins to an hour before going to sleep at night. As you know she then wakes at 1am and continues this loud loud happy noise until 5am at which point she goes back to sleep.

I love her happy banter before sleep but am wondering if in order to overcome the night noise, we need to teach her that bed is for whispering voices only?

Just a thought as we really would like to stop her making so much loud noise between 1am and 5am!   Until we manage to move to a bigger house her noise distrupts us and keeps us awake, even with earplugs in...that is how loud she is!!

Also, I've asked this before but at what age would you expect she'd be old enough to be expected to remember that night-time is for quiet?   If we go in and say quiet she stays quiet for a couple of minutes and then starts up again.

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Elle is the opposite. Really quiet and tired during her wind-down routine...sucking her muslin and basically falling asleep. She always seems so tired that we think she'll fall asleep straight away but as soon as we shut her door the party starts.

Ella is usually quiet as soon as i leave the room. If she isn't that tired she usually chatters away to herself for a bit and then runs around the cot in her sleeping bag.

For us it depends on how tired he is. Usually once storytime is over, he will say bye mummy, then have a little bit of chatter and play in bed, then he goes straight to sleep. If he's really tired, he just rolls over and goes straight to sleep.

We are crazy-noisy here at bedtime - Jono tickles and raspberrys Ella mercilessly and she squeals and giggles away - she even says her bedtime prayers noisily, getting excited remembering who she saw that day, and finishing off with an over-enthusiastic "Amen!" that she almost shouts. So quite the opposite here... (and far from what people recommend for bedimes! But it hasn't caused Ella any probs so we're very lucky in that respect).
I'd say Elle is old enough and certainly bright enough to understand night-time is for quiet, but then her understanding that and her agreeing to it might be two very different issues. Worth a try, anyway. All I can say is GOOD LUCK and I hope something works for you soon!

LOL Kellz I didn't even think about it but that is the same as us.
Our boys bedroom is bed, drawers (still a change table) and his books. We read a book in his room before bed and he then gets onto bed.

Some nights he will sing for a little while before going to sleep, but it is a small whisper (as much as he can) last night he had a cuddle then went straight to sleep. So for us it does vary slighty.

No she doesn't tend to play in her room - she is an outdoors girl. All our toys have homes (ie. plastic bins or drawers..nothing is left out as I am a clean freak!) but if they are out to play with then it is in the lounge. She doesn't play with anything in the night...just lies on her back, starring into the blackness and having a blast.

I swear this child will be a novelist or something one day...such an imagination!

I was pointed to a thread on EBB with several mothers whose kids do the same thing! Not so worried now and am still trying very hard to learn to sleep through the noise until we get a bigger house.

Alyssa is generally quiet, but still talkative, as the bath just before bed has slowed her down a bit. She talks while we read a couple of books, then when she is put her in bed she talks a little bit more to her toys, then just drifts off.

She has all her Mickey Mouse mates lined up in bed next to her and talks to them when she wakes up in the morning as well.

Kryssi doesn't much, maybe cause she sucks her finger? Hannah and Briona on the other hand, giggle and chatter and carry on - and that started well before they shared a bedroom. I just see it as part of their winding down for sleep.

jetts pretty quite he just lies there looking around.

but its when he wakes up he babbles and laughes

sarah has never been a sleeper although it seems to have got worse now that shes older. now she sings talks screams for a few hours before she gos to sleep